MORE than 50 organisations employing over 1,400 workers moved to a four-day working week in 2025, according to new figures.
The 4 Day Week Foundation said the total number of workers on a four-day week is now more than 6,000 at 253 accredited employers.
Newly accredited employers included those in business, consulting and management, charities and technology, as well as companies in retail, housing, engineering, marketing, arts and entertainment, manufacturing, gaming, recruitment, heritage, healthcare and education sectors.
London has the highest number of newly accredited companies, followed by Scotland and the North West, the foundation said.
Joe Ryle, campaign director for the foundation, said the latest figures show that UK employers no longer have any practical barriers to making the shift.
“These companies are proving that there is nothing stopping organisations in the UK from moving to a four-day week,” he said.
“Across virtually every sector and region, employers are showing that shorter working weeks boost productivity, improve wellbeing and help attract and retain talent – all without cutting pay.
“The question is no longer whether it works, but how quickly others will follow.”
A total of 53 newly accredited organisations permanently adopted a four-day week with no loss of pay last year, the foundation said.
Since April 2024, workers have a right to ask for flexible work but firms do not have to agree.
Trials for four-day work weeks were initially launched back in 2022, with 18 UK companies making a permanent change a few months later.
Which companies offer a four day week to all staff?
A total of 253 firms now offer a four day week to their staff.
Here’s a full list of the firms offering a four day week on full pay to all:
- 3D Issue — Digital
- 448 Studio — Media
- 5 Squirrels Ltd — Manufacturing
- 64 Million Artists — Creative Industries
- 92 Minutes Ltd — Consultancy
- Accurise — Accountancy
- Acuity Solutions — Consultancy
- Advantage Business Partnerships — Professional Services
- Advice Cloud — Consultancy
- Advice Direct Scotland — Charity
- Agile Communication Agency — Marketing
- Agricultural Recruitment Specialists — Recruitment
- AKA Case Management — Healthcare
- Alliance Publishing Trust — Charity
- Almond Financial — Finance
- Amity Community Action — NGO
- Andy Matthews Studio — Architect
- Arts Marketing Association — Arts & Entertainment
- Ascendancy — Digital
- Atlas Translations — Travel
- Atom Bank — Banking
- Autonomy — NGO
- Awin — Marketing
- AWO — Law
- Awscape — Architect
- Baker Consultants — Consultancy
- Barefoot Architects — Architect
- Barking and Dagenham Giving — Charity
- Bedrock Learning — Education
- BiBO — Architect
- Big Potato Games — Gaming
- Bimble Solar — Energy
- BJP Consulting Group Ltd — Consulting
- Blink — Marketing
- Bookishly — Retail
- Boxfish — Consultancy
- BrandPipe — Technology
- Breaks — Creative Industries
- Brett Nicholls Associates — Accountancy
- British Ecological Society — NGO
- British Society for Rheumatology — Charity
- Brook — Charity
- Butcher Bayley Architects — Architect
- Cairn Ecology — Consultancy
- Camlas — Public Affairs
- Camloc Motion Control — Manufacturing
- Causeway Irish Housing Association — Housing
- Centre for Local Economic Strategies — NGO
- Centre for Thriving Places Ltd — Consultancy
- Charity Bank — Finance
- Citizens Advice Gateshead — Charity
- City to Sea — NGO
- CIVO — Digital
- Climate Policy Radar — NGO
- CMD: Studio (Villainous Games Studio) — Gaming
- CMG Technologies — Manufacturing
- Cobry — Technology
- Coltech Global — Technology
- Common Knowledge — Digital
- Concrete Youth — Arts & Entertainment
- Cooked Illustrations — Media
- Counting King Limited — Consultancy
- CRASH Services — Professional Services
- Creatio — Technology
- Crystallised — Marketing
- Custom Heat — Construction
- Cyber and Fraud Centre Scotland — IT/Software
- Dash Accounting Services — Accountancy
- DataLase — Technology
- DigiLab — Marketing
- Digital Guerilla Consultancy — Construction
- Earth Science Partnership — Engineering
- Earthly — Consultancy
- East Marsh United — NGO
- Edith Garland Architecture — Architect
- Elektra Lighting — Design
- Element Four — Consultancy
- Elliott & Company Consulting Engineers Ltd — Engineering
- Energiesprong UK — Housing
- Epic HR — Professional Services
- Escape the City — Recruitment
- Escentral — Consultancy
- ESG Gaming — Gaming
- Esteem Training — Construction
- Everyday — Arts & Entertainment
- Evolved Search — Marketing
- Flocc — Marketing
- FMC Global Talent — Recruitment
- Formedix — Technology
- Fortem People LTD — Recruitment
- ForthStar — Gaming
- Forward Carers — Healthcare
- Forward Space — Design
- Four Day Week Ltd — Recruitment
- Furness Insurance Services — Insurance
- Future Economy Scotland — NGO
- Future Projects — Charity
- Geeks for Social Change — IT
- Giant Digital — Consultancy
- Girling Jones — Recruitment
- Global Partners Digital — Digital
- Good Ancestor Movment — Finance
- Gracefruit — Retail
- Greenpost — Recruitment
- Ground And Project Consultants Ltd — Engineering
- Gungho Marketing — Marketing
- Happy — Learning
- Hello Heat Pumps — Housing
- Hello Starling — Advertising
- Highfield Professional Solutions — Engineering
- Highgate IT Solutions — IT/Software
- House of Hackney — Retail
- Hutch Games Ltd — Gaming
- Ideal Extraction — Engineering
- IG-HR — Consulting
- IMD Solicitors — Legal
- Independent Food Aid Network — Charity
- Infigo — IT/Software
- Intercultural Youth Scotland — NGO
- Interlink — Technology
- Jerba Campavans — Manufacturing
- JMK Solicitors — Legal
- Kairos Women+ — Charity
- Kinfolk Network — Not for profit
- LEaF Translations — Professional Services
- Legacy Events — Events
- Lemongrass Marketing — Marketing
- LIT Communication — Marketing
- Literal Humans — Marketing
- London Funders — NGO
- Loud Mouth Media — Marketing
- LoveGunn — Design
- LUX – The Food & Drink Agency — Advertising
- Madeby.studio — Technology
- Maggie Chapman MSP — Politics
- Marketing Signals — Marketing
- MATS Consultancy — Professional Services
- Matthew Edwards & Co — Accountancy
- Mavin Powercube — Technology
- Melville Housing Association — Housing
- Mental Health Foundation — Charity
- Merthyr Valleys Homes — Housing
- Middle Child Theatre — Creative Industries
- Middleton Co-operating — NGO
- Mox — Advertising
- MRL Consulting — Recruitment
- MSDS Marine & MSDS Heritage — Heritage
- Muckle Media — Public Affairs
- Mutual — Technology
- MycoPunks — Retail
- Native Ecology — Consulting
- NEON (New Economy Organisers Network) — NGO
- Neonhive — Gaming
- New Economics Foundation — NGO
- New Vision Digital Marketing — Digital
- Noteworthy Support — IT/Software
- Opportunity Green — Charity
- Oriel Square — Education
- Original Consultants — Technology
- Ormiston Wire Ltd — Manufacturing
- Pale Fox Esports — Sport
- Paul David Smith Photography — Creative Industries
- Paul Morgan & Associates Wealth Management Ltd. — Finance
- Peak PEO — Accountancy
- People — Events
- Planning Aid Scotland — Charity
- Plaudit Agency — Marketing
- Pollard Media — Marketing
- Pool Data — Technology
- Portcullis Legals — Legal
- Poteris — Technology
- PR Dispatch — Public Relations
- Pressure Drop — Brewery
- Principles Agency — Marketing
- Professional Writing Academy — Education
- PTHR — Design
- Punch Creative — Marketing
- PureFluent — Marketing
- Quality of Life Foundation — Charity
- Queercircle — Arts & Entertainment
- Reboot — Marketing
- Red Giraffe — Marketing
- Resilience Brokers — NGO
- Reward Agency — Marketing
- Richard John Andrews Ltd — Architect
- Rise — Charity
- Safer Fostering — Charity
- Schuco — Healthcare
- Scotland’s International Development Alliance — Charity
- Scottish Green Party — Politics
- SDX Messaging — Consultancy
- Sensat — Construction
- SEOMG! — Technology
- Shout Loud Social — Marketing
- Sidequest Ltd — Gaming
- Sinister Fish Games — Gaming
- Social Enterprise Direct — Professional Services
- Social For Good — Marketing
- Softer Success — Consultancy
- Sounds Like These — Creative Industries
- Split Banana — Charity
- SQS — Energy
- Stagecast — Media
- STC Expeditions — Travel
- STOP AIDS — Charity
- streamGO — Events
- Studio Cotton — Design
- Synergy Vision — Marketing
- T-Cup — Consultancy
- Tai Pawb — Housing
- Tailored Thinking — HR
- Talewind — Gaming
- Target Composites Ltd — Manufacturing
- Target Publishing — Media
- TBL Services — Consultancy
- TBL Services — Consultancy
- Team Custard Kraken — Gaming
- Teampoint — Software
- Technovent — Manufacturing
- The Beacon — PR
- The Circle — Charity
- Think Productive — Consultancy
- This Is Beyond — Events
- THRYVE — Recruitment
- Time Appointments — Recruitment
- Tribera — Digital
- Trigger — Creative Industries
- Tyler Grange Group Ltd — Consultancy
- Unify Learning & Development — Education
- Uniqodo — Technology
- UPAC Group — Manufacturing
- Vault City Brewing — Manufacturing
- Venture Stream — Marketing
- VerriBerri — Marketing
- Vetro Recruitment — Recruitment
- Waterwise — NGO
- We Are Purposeful — NGO
- WeBuyVintage — Retail
- Welcome to the Jungle — Recruitment
- Wellbeing Economy Alliance — NGO
- Whering — Digital
- Whyfield — Accountancy
- Wolf & Moon — Retail
- Women’s Budget Group — NGO
- Woven Ink Studio Limited — Creative Industries
- Xaso — Marketing
- Ynni Sir Gâr — Community Energy
- You HR Consultancy — Consultancy
- YWCA Scotland — Charity
- Zetteler — Design
- Zync Digital — Marketing
